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Japanese for Absolute Beginners

Learn to Speak Japanese Step by Step in 10 Audio Lessons – Essential Grammar, Everyday Vocabulary and Guided Speaking PracticeBy Anya LewisNarrated by Anya Lewis

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Konnichiwa! Japanese has a reputation for being hard for English speakers – and it is different. The word order is different, the verbs sit at the end, and there are particles English simply does not have. This course takes that seriously and builds you up one step at a time. Across ten lessons, Anya Lewis teaches you to speak rather than just listen. Every lesson opens with a review of what came before, introduces new vocabulary, then walks you through the grammar and leaves you space to answer out loud before revealing each answer. You will introduce yourself, say where you are from and how old you are, talk about your job, your school year and your hobbies, describe going somewhere with someone by train or by car, ask who an object belongs to, tell the time, name the days of the week and say what you have. Along the way you will master the patterns that make Japanese click: noun wa noun desu, the four tenses of desu, turning any sentence into a question with ka, the ni, no, to, de and ga particles, and the difference between arimasu and imasu. The final lesson reviews everything from the very beginning. Roughly three hours of clear, patient teaching with practice built into every topic. Ganbatte!

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GenreOther

Length3 hrs 29 mins

Narrated byAnya Lewis

FormatAudiobook

Publish dateSep 28, 2026

LanguageEnglish

1Your First Japanese Greetings, Casual and Formal

2Saying Goodbye and Introducing Yourself in Japanese

3Yoroshiku Onegai Shimasu, and Asking for a Name

4The Sentence Pattern Behind Almost All Japanese

5Turning Any Japanese Sentence into a Question with Ka

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6Where Are You from, and When Japanese Drops the Topic

7Practising Japanese Nationalities, and a Look Back

8Thank You, Excuse Me and Just a Moment in Japanese

9Keep Your Chin up, and Counting to Ten in Japanese

10Building Any Japanese Number, and Saying How Old You Are

11Asking Someone's Age, and Why Japanese Drops Topics

12The Four Tenses of Desu

13Practising Japanese Tenses, and a Fresh Introduction

14Japanese School Years, and a Reminder of the Four Tenses

15What Grade Are You in, and Why Japanese Avoids You

16The Possessive No, and a List of Japanese Jobs

17Talking About Your Job in Japanese, Long Form and Short

18Asking What Someone Does, and Japanese Hobbies

19Shumi, and How to Ask About Someone's Hobby

20To Go, to Come and to Return in Japanese

21The Ni Particle and Everywhere You Might Go

22Hospitals, Schools and Convenience Stores in Japanese

23Why Japanese Has No Future Tense

24Changing Masu to Change the Tense

25Japanese Family Words, and How to Say Yesterday

26Last Week, and a Review of Japanese Destinations

27Going Somewhere with Someone in Japanese

28Travelling by Bus, Train, Car or Plane in Japanese

29Fitting People and Transport into One Japanese Sentence

30Longer Japanese Sentences, and Leaving Yourself Out

31Putting Every Piece of the Japanese Sentence Together

32Warming up the Four Japanese Verb Tenses

33The Full Japanese Sentence Formula, and into the Classroom

34This, That and That over There, or Kore, Sore, Are

35Whose Pencil Is This, and How Japanese Asks It

36Answering Who Something Belongs to in Japanese

37Kono, Sono, Ano and a Second Word Order

38Rearranging the Sentence, and on to Japanese Time

39Telling the Hour in Japanese, and Two Numbers That Change

40One O'Clock to Twelve, and Asking the Time in Japanese

41Morning, Afternoon and Half Past in Japanese

42The Tens Line of Japanese Minutes

43The Fives Line, and a Complete Japanese Time

44Festivals, Lessons and Trickier Japanese Timings

45Revisiting Japanese Hours, Minutes and Half Past

46The Seven Days of the Japanese Week

47From One Day Until Another with Kara and Made

48Monday's Three O'Clock, and the Possessive No

49From What Time Until What Time in Japanese?

50A Two-Voice Japanese Dialogue About a Festival

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